Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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